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spend his hard earnings at a debauch at
the drinking saloon, instead of for the
support of bis family? We have known
mechanics in the City of Charleston to
spend the whole of their weekly earn.
ings ina debauch from Saturday night
to Monday morning, and strange to say
this inordinate thirst for strong drink is
rather increased than diminished by self.
indulgence. So we take it, if the work.
ing man is true to himself and his own
family, he will vote every time to remove
the tenn ptation from his pathway.
One other point, and we are done. If
there is one thing more than another
that has astonished us beyond measure,
that as intelligent a class of men as
physicians and druggists should, in any
case, lend themselves to a violation of
prohibition law, properly enac ted, an
endorsed at the ballot box. Yet it has
been done in the past, and to prevent it
in the future, explains many of the ex.
treme provisions of the Bill. If tufts OF
grass will not deter such men, why the
law must throw stones at them. On
these points Mr.. Murray may be nearer
right than ourselves. He judged of the
future by the past, and from past expe'
rience he we'll knew, perhaps, that moth.
ing but the most drastic treatment would
meet the case. At any rate, as the mat.
ter now stands, it is either to remand the
County to all the excesses of the dram
shop, or vote for prohibition under the
Murray Bill. The decision is made as
quickly as the issue is presented.
IT. n. r.
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Verdict of the Jury In the Edgefleld
Lynching Case.

EpGEF1ELD, August 5.-The great
Culbreath lynching case, perhaps the
irst of its kind ever brought to trial
came to and end to-day at 8 o'clock
The whole Of the morning session Of
court up to 9 o'clock was taken up with
the able, eloquent and exhaustive argu.
ment of Attorney General Earle for the
State aud General Butler for the defense
Both covered the entire ground of their
respective sides, and each wound up with
a most telling resume. Judge Wallace's
charge was, go to speak, a clearing ur
thunder shower after the two days oi
heated debate. The jury were not out
quite an hour, when they brought in q
verdict of not guilty.
At the last term of the court there was
a severance, 80 that only tao of the
lynchers, Parkman and Holmes, were
on trial, and upon the announcement Of
the verdict as to them, the States attor.
ney entered a mol. pros as to the remain.
ing thirty defendants.
The largest crowd ever known to have
assembled in Edgeield Court House
faced the Attorney General this morning
when be arose to address the jury.
Before daylight men on horses and in
buggies could be heard coming from all
FIVE of the public roads which lead into
the village. Many were not able to get
into the court room, and the public
square during the day was filled with q
mass of sweltering humanity.
The verdict was not surprise to any
one, as nobody expected convic ton.
Everything in connection with the case,
during the progress of the trial and the
rendition Of the verdict, passed of
ouiot1u
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sa:Df. Isl Nj; Orr, q physician of this
City,olin an interview published last
week, bitterly denounces the pending
Prohibition Bill, and processes to do so
from a professional standpoint. The
sentiments the Doctor expresses surprise
no; person who knows his uniform posi-
tion on this question. He has invariably,
we believe, actively opposed all move.
ments looking to prohibition, even in our
city elections. As an svowed advocate
of the license system, We did not expect
.sDr. Orrto favor this Bill, which, it is
generally believed, willaprohibit ifadopt.
ed BY our people. We publish in this
issue of the INTELdGENcER interviews
with,a number of Doctors and Druggists
swho favor the Bill. and from this array
tof names We are satisfied that the public
viii see that men who have had longer
and more extensive professional expert
.ence than DR.. Orr tare,not afraid tosrisk
the pending Bill. Generally the physi-
;ciaps who ARE prohibitionists: favor the
Bill; or are willing to; try it, knowing
that they can secure such changes as
may -appear necessary after trying the
Bill. Those who are opposed to lprohi-
hilton are Of course bitterly opposed to
this, q any other Bill which will prohib'
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OF course it is full of objections to whis.
key men. We found it that way in the
Legislature but this article is submitted
for the consideration of temperance peo'
pie to examine, and see if it is the proper
thing to promote temperance. If so
then vote for it; but don't vote against
it as temperance man. We can't con-
sent to that. It is whiskey that is on
trial. 1t is not your delegation. They
had their trial last autumn. 1t is whis'
key nov that is arraigned at the bar Of
judgment, and the voters Of Anderson
County are called upon as judges to pass
upon it, whether it is an evil, and if so
is this remedy?
If we have succeeded in getting up 9
Bill that temperance people will support
and 'whiskey men oppose, then it is
success, and the delegation has redeemed
its pledge.
JOSEPH N. BROWN.
anderson S. c., Aug. 8, 1887.
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If Prohibitory laws do not prohibit the
sale of whiskey, why should the whiskey
men be so much opposed to the law? If
such laws do not prohibit why is it that
the distillep and wholesale dealers con.
tribute so freely of their money to defeat
prohibitory laws in distant States? If
the whiskey men are willing to conform
to the will of the people, why are they
opposed to an expression of opinion by
the people? II prohibition doesn't pro.
hibit why should a wholesale liquor deal
er in Charleston boycott prohibition
newspaper in Abbeville.
Let it be understood that the temper.
ance people of Abbeville county mean to
get an ex preston by vote Of the people
AS to whether the sale of whiskey shall
continue to be licensed. In case our
representatives neglect or refuse to put
the necessary laws on the books, the vot.
ers must seek remedy for their wrong.
-AbbeviNe Press and Banner.
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Tough Story of a Land Sale.

PlTTsBURG, August S.-A syndicate Of
New York and Pittsburg capitalists have
just closed transaction by which they
become owners of nearly one hundred
thousand acres Of the finest pine forests
in the South. The lands are along the
Northern line of South Carolina and
Georgia, most of it being in the latter
State. The price paid was s7,O0O,0O0, in
cash. The deal was made through q
prominent real estate firm in this city.
The intention of the purchasers is not to
develop the lands, but to hold them as an
investment until the advance in price of
lumber greatly increases their value.
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= Referring to the foods in Augusta
and the Savannah valley, the Providence
Journal speaks of them as warning to
the people on both sides of the river. 1t
thinks the wholesale destruction of for.
ests make possible and intensity the
floods. We commend what it says !:
"What has happened to the south of
France, which century ago, was well
timbered, but now, denuded of its trees,
is subject to sudden torrents that, in q
few hours, sweep away crops, houses and
vineyards, seems also to be Detailing the
State of Georgia. Both banks of the
Savannah river have been extensively
barred of their forests; no effort has been
made to replace them, and foretaste of
the inevitable result has just been given.
1t is not surprising, therefore, that within
the last few days the Georgians are advo.
eating the Importance of forest preserva.
ton with zeal born of their late expert
ence. 1t may be hoped that the subject
will not be given mere evanescent
attention" ."-Augusta Chronicle.
= The Hon. ]. F. Casanova, of Phila-
delphia, was sitting in his Office reading,
when he heard a sharp click, and felt
something enter his right eye. On exam.
ination he found that a small scale Of
glass had burst from his eye. glasses.
Going to barber's shop, he had stream
of water injected forcibly, by means of a
rubber tube, under the eyelid, with the
effect of washing out the silver of glass,
which was about the size and shape of
shad's scale. No harm was done to the
eye whatever. A short time before the
accident the frame of the eyeglasses had
been tightened.
The late lamented Baltimore and
Ohio deal is quite cast into the shade by
the formation of syndicate of Philadel.
phia capitalists, which, according to the
Record of that city, has undertaken "to
establish complete system of railroads,
banks, mines and iron manufactures in
the Chinese empire" 1t is also said to
have the absolute control for fifty years
of telephone system in China.
~ The engineers and 6remen Of the
Delaware and Hudson Road have been
forbidden to wink at or hirt with any
women they may pass on their locomo.
tives.
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Texas Will Have Her Whiskey.


GALVESTON, August 5.-Returns to
the Mews received up to midnight last
night from 440 polling precincts clearly
indicate that the prohibition amendment
is defeated by $4,000 votes. 1t will be
impossible to give the exact result until
the official count shall have been made.
The result indicates that all the other
amendments, except the one extending
the time for holding the legislature, have
been carried.
The latest returns received here from
over 500 voting precincts clearly indicate
that the prohibition amendment has been
defeated by a majority ranging from
$4,000 10 10000. Enthusiastic anti
prohibitionists claim this will be increas-
ed To rs. 600.
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.a Our correspondent, ST. II. R." is
mistaken in supposing that any petition
for. the enactment of q prohibition law
for this County was ever semitic the Leg.
.islature while Hon. Hugh M. Prince
was Representative from this County,
or at any other time in the last nine
years, except the petition for the submis'
sion of the question to County vote
which was submitted two years ago. a
large petition from the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union. from Charleston
was sent to- Mr.. Prince for the prohibi-
ton of the manufacture and sale OF
spirituous liquors in the State. Mr..
Prince introduced Bill to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of spirituous
liquors in the State of South Carolina
Mr.. Murray voted against this Bill be-
cause he did not think it practicable to
maintain the Law if it was passed, for the
sentiment of the State was against it.
He favored the local option plan by
which the question is left to the people,
and taking the matter up by counties
where the people are ready for it. Mr..
Prince and Hon. r. w. Simpson voted
for the Bill to- prohibit by legislative
enactment the manufacture and sale OF
spirituous liquors in South Carolina
without any reference to the people.
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A Family Externlinator.

MACON, GA.,g August G.-Information
has Just been received of most horrible
tragedy occurring last night about twelve
miles from here in this county. The
reports say that Capt. Richard Voolfolk,
q well.known farmer, his wife, four
children and Mrs. West, an aunt of Mrs,
Voolfolk, were found murdered in the
house this morning, having heen knocked
in the head and their throats cut. Tom
G. Voolfolk, a son of Capt. Voolfolk
by his first wife, is suspected of the crime
aud was arrested. A deputy sheriff and
the coroner went out to the scene of the
murder. Owing to the distance from the
city, full particulars cannot be had just
now. ~ s;..
Later and fuller details from the scene
of the tragedy develop the fact that there
were nine victims instead Of seven, as at
FIRST, reported. Capt. and Mrs. R. F.
Voolfolk, their six children, ranging in
ages from .18 months to 20 years, and Mrs.
West, an aunt of Mrs. Voolfolk, aged
80. The coroner's jury found a verdict
of murder against Thos. G. Voolfolk a
son of the captains first wife, who was
sleeping in the house. His statement
was that sometime before daybreak he
was aroused by groans and the sound Of
blows proceeding from bis parents room.
His half brother Richard ran into the
room which adjoins his, and thinking
that murder was being committed he
(Thomas) jumped from the window in
his night clothes and bare feet and ran
to the house of negro three or four
hundred yards distant to get them to
arouse the neighborhood. He says he
was afraid to return, fearing that he him.
self would be murdered, but went back
after half an hour. No help had arrived
and he went in to see if the family had
been murdered. He found them all
dead. He stepped in pool of blood in
passing and left footprints on the floor.
he found his stepmother lying 80 that
her head was on the floor and her body
on the bed. He raised her up and placed
her on the bed. He then changed his
clothing. By this time crowd had
arrived and soon after he was taken into
custody. ~ ~
The evidence before the jury was cir
cumstantial throughout The crowd
then continued to grow in size and indi.
cations pointed strongly to lynching.
Sheriff Westcott told the jury to with
the verdict until he could get the
!, oner away and then making all
arrangements, slipped Voolfolk out of
the house in hurry and drove away so
rapidly that the crowd had hardly time
to realize the departure. The prisoner
was brought to Macon and safely lodged
in iail where he talked of the crime
coolly, but made no admissions. His
motives, it is said, are the desire to gain
possession of his fathers property for
himself and two sisters, children of the
first wife.
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Mr. EDITOR: As the time for the elec.
ton has been definitely fixed, and the
question must soon be decided one way
or the other at the ballot. boz, it seems
to be the duty Of every citizen Of Ander.
son to define his position, and to cast his
influence On the side of morality and
temperance, rather than on the side Of
intemperance and crime. In previous
communication to the Journal we
explained our objections to the Murray
Bill, but said explicitly that on the alb
stract question of prohibition" or "no
prohibition" we should vote for prohibi-
ton. We think that probably four
years ago it would have been better to
have passed the bill through the Legis.
lature on the strong petition which was
placed in the hands of one of our dele
gates, Mr.. Hugh Prince; but it was
thought best to defer the decision of the
question to a popular election. In
Pickens County the Prohibition Bill was
passed on petition, and although at first
there was a popular outcry, yet the
good sense of the people rallied to the
support of the measure, and it vas abun.
dainty sustained. So We think it might
have been the case in Anderson, under
similar circumstances, but now it is too
late for that, and if we can carry prohibi-
ton by an election it is 80 much the bet.
ter. But probably we should not have
troubled your readers with any further
ebulitions from our pen on the subject,
but from the fact that the workiDgmen
have been invoked against prohibition,
on the ground that it is another blow at
their personal rights, which ought to be
resisted. On the question of protection
to the laboring man in all his just rights
we yield to no man in their support.
The knights of Labor, the strongest
labor organization in the United States,
have imbedded in their constitution
prohibition plank of the strongest char.
acter. No drunkard can enter the por.
tails of that Order, nor remain member
of the Order and practice intemperance.
At least such is our understanding of
their position on that question, although
not a member of the Order. MIR. Pow
derly, who stands at the head of the
Order in these United States, gives out
no uncertain sound on that question.
He considers the drinking of spirituous
liquors to excess the greatest enemy the
laboring man has to contend With.
How often does the laboring man
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The argument that d aphysiciana cannot
administer whiskey as amedicine because
itMonld be giving lit,away in connection
with his business, is to ourimind entirely
spsoions. The physician can administer
medicine under all proper circumstances
nnderithe pending Law, whether that
medicine be- whiskey OF arsenic. 1t is
not given in connection with his bust.
mess ihnt isthe. business itselfa When
the doctor gives a!stimulant, he doesitas
he would any other medicine. Itlwould
tbe ridiculous to- say that The doctor came
stosea MIRA: and in connection with his
business chin dose Of calomel. It
is equally ridiculous to say that any other
medicine is given by doctor in connec.
ltion with his business. It is the business
Itself. Ifthe 'whiskey iiy not given as a
medicine, then the doctor ought to be
liable. .esauisad s{iit 27se ssitte2stirTe
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|
Ex President Jefferson Davis wrote a
letter to gentleman in Texas in which
he declares himself to be temperance
man, but opposed to prohibition, on the
ground that. the country is governed too
much, and that it interferes with the
rights of the citizen. Mr. Davis is very
general, and does not show how it inter-
feres with the right of the citizen any
more than license lawinterferes with
such rights, nor does he show how the
country is any more governed by q pro-
hibitory law than license law. Each
would be but one Act, and the probibi.
ton Act would be simpler than the
license Act. Mr.. Davis is responsible,
in large measure, for great many of
the troubles of the South. He should
not seek to add to the evils associated
with his name the curse of rum. Mr..
Davis advice to the country has not been
that of wisdom or craftsmanship on sew.
eral occasions in the past. He was not
free from the appearance, at least, of
gross partiality as President of the South
ern Confederacy in his various appoint.
ments, and his short.sighted course in
rejecting the oyertures of peace made at
Fortress Monroe added many thousands
to the widows and orphans of this coun-
try, and cost the South thousands OLIVES
apd billions of dollars that could have
been saved. With record like his,
when in the zenith of his mental and
physical manhood, it is hardly to. be
expected that now, at the advanced age
Of nearly eighty years, when soured by
defeat and disappointment, his counsel
should be any safer or more to be trusted.
In. volunteering to champion the cause
of whiskey he seeks to fasten on the
government q curse that annually kills
moro men and destroys more homes than
the rayages of war did during any year
of the contest for Confederate indepen-
dence.
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.Dr. 0rttsought to know that every
druggist has ascopy, or oughtbto have q
copy fsshe transactions Of the State
Medical Association, itn which they pub.
,lish the7name every year oftevery regis
tered physician ini the County. It will
not, therefore, be necessary for the drug.
gistasto take time to visit the. Court
9Houseito;fnd out who are doctors. s
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"A terrible waterspout struck the
mill of Mr.. Dan Mathews, in Jackson
county, Georgia. few days ago, and
washed it completely away. 1t vas cit.
mated in little branch, and was not
injured by the late heavy rains. The
waterspout was 80 terrific that it washed
the mill stone several hundred yards
down the branch,
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Orr. who so boldly challenges the man.
hood of any sphysicisn who nay. differ
from him iu'regard p the pending bill,
is ;an honorablesgentlemap and a high
sonedsphysician, and: I respect bis opin..
ions, but do widely dissent from his
views, as rash and untenable. Not long
since customer entered dry goods
store and asked fol. red calico. 1t was
at once shown him, when the reply came
he wanted red and not blue. The clerk
eyed him. closely for moment, and then
presented him with a bolt of blue.
Chats the dot" replied the customer ;
"that is the kind of red I want" You
perceive the customer was color blind.
My brother, DR.. Orr. wants red-he
knows that he wants red, and he con-
scientiously believes that all physicians,
like himself, ought to be red, and has the
msnhood to cay so. But, nevertheless,
it does not change the color of the calico.
An optical delusion is to be pitied, but
not encouraged. He has in strong terms
declared the calico red, which we know
is blue. The best physicians in the land
say it lis blue-as blue as indigo can
make it. Is our brother color blind n
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PROHIBITIon MEETINGS.

Inl addition to the meetings already
announced, there will be Prohibition
Mass Meetings on Saturday ne4t, the
18th inst, at II o'clock a. m., TO wit:
AT Cross Roads Church.
aSAt NJ. O. farmers residence, Fork.
Speakers will be- sent to each of these
meetings and q full attendance of the
ladies' and citizens of these neighbor.
hoods is requested. 5lilar
/. lt.ss 10 B. E. GRAFTON,
Chm'n. Prohibition Committee.
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se.E. Ii. Horne, Zone Of the contractors
building the new Capitol in Atlanta, was
shot add killed in q room in the Kimball
house Sunday evening. Two men, a..
B. F. Veal, of Stone Mountain, and Sam
.Vsnable, former manager Of the Georgia
sGianite company, got into q fight and
Mr., Horne attempted to separate: them
when lie was shot; through the head. AS
the parties were all prominent men in
business icircles great excitement was
caused and the hotel corridors were
crowded all night.
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Vote in this election on prohibition as
s syolfprsy fyou pray for the making
ofdrunksrds, for the desolation of happy
homes, for the destruction of the body
and souls Of your fsllow.:men, then vote
on next Tuesday to, open the barrooms
in this County. They make drunkards
and destroy the happy home-life ofiour
Hand. Hand. II you pray for the coming Of
Cbrists kingdom. that We may not be
lad into temptation, and that the cause
of morality3apd coed government maybe
promoted on earth, then vote against the
traffic sins spirituous liquors. "A vote for
prohibition is 81 divoteifor morality and
good government, fos happy homes and
prosperous citizens. sisiiis ~. Itej
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!, We think the vieHs Of Col. Brown
npon, the legal questions inYolyedsin in the
pending Prohibition Bill will; be taken
as reliable and ssfe to depend upon.
Read what he has toasaY upon the Bill,
and then Judge for yourselves. ,,gs ,,,i
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Df. Orr accuses the probibitionists Of
bringing. the negro back into politics.
We cannot see how. the prohibitionists
are responsible for doing this, but if the
Doctor i correct il seems TO ;us IS that the
colored people ought to vote with the
prphibitionists instead Of the .anti.prohi.
stionists. s (, :. 80
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
IN All persons having demands against
the Estate of Jas. A. Sadler. deceased, are
hereby notified to present them, properly
proven, to the undersigned within the time
prescribed by law, and those indebted to
make payment.
August IN, 1887 8 3